5-11, ST ANDREW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268766
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 5-11, ST ANDREW STREET
Statutory Address:: 5-11, ST ANDREW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268766
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 5-11, ST ANDREW STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 5-11, ST ANDREW STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 5-11, ST ANDREW STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32416 12644

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET 817-1/16/203 (South side) 12/04/73 Nos.5-11 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now with shop, surgery and flats. Early-mid C19. Grey-brown stock brick, Flemish Bond, stucco bands, sills and moulded eaves fascia and cornice. Hipped Welsh slated roofs, 4 multi-flue stock brick chimneys with band, oversailing course and orange clay pots. EXTERIOR: 9 bay facade with breaks and projections in ratio 1:1:2:1:2:1:1. Three storeys. First floor recessed 12-pane sashes under rubbed flat arches with stucco sills to each bay (blank recesses in outer left and right bays). Second floor recessed 6-pane sashes, with equivalent blank recesses. Ground floor has doorways in end bays, 4 panels, with 2 lower flush panels, with traceried semicircular fanlights, reeded surrounds and arched reveals and painted stucco bands above similar doors to inner pair, Nos 7 & 9 from central carriageway which has a segmental rubbed brick arch above, and painted stucco impost bands. 12-pane sashes to other bays with exception of No.11 which has a C20 shop window within C19 surround. Rear elevation has 5 sash windows to first and second floors, with low segmental arches ground floor 6 scattered windows and 2 doors (to Nos 5 & 7). Exterior of No.11 has mid C19 cast-iron railing and gates on Portland stone curb, with spear uprights, and gate with trellis cross piece and arrow heads below. INTERIOR: upper floors not inspected; ground floors opened out and altered. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.11 has a plaque inscribed to Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913), Naturalist, Author and Scientist, who lived here. Educated at Hertford Grammar School, Wallace spent 4 years in the Amazon basin, then a further 8 in South-East Asia. He was in touch with Darwin and Huxley, but independently formulated the concept of 'natural selection'. (Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 163; Hertfordshire Countryside: Lea J: Schooldays of a famous scientist: Letchworth: 1946-1952: 52-3).

Listing NGR: TL3241612644

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Legacy System number:: 461481
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 163
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1952), 52-53

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.